outside the plate:
top right, in graphite: R. 231
top centre, in ink: 273 . 311
top right corner, in ink, same hand: 307
bottom centre, in ink, between two ruled graphite guide-lines: Scirpus Sylvaticus

Verso, bottom right, the Ruskin School's stamp

Provenance

Presented by John Ruskin to the Ruskin Drawing School (University of Oxford), 1875; transferred from the Ruskin Drawing School to the Ashmolean Museum, c.1949.